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slash donate. From W be easy Chicago this is nerd at recaps I'm Greta Johnson

and today we are recapping the movie

Promising Young Woman. It is up for five Academy Awards including Best Picture,

Best Director, and Best Actress. Now if you are at all familiar with this movie you already know it deals with some tough topics including suicide and sexual violence.

So if that's something you are not up for at the moment that is entirely reasonable,

feel free to press pause and maybe come back another time.

Also, Peter and Tricia are sitting this one out, but I'm really excited to tell you about the people who are going to help me recap this movie.

First up we have Makaya Johnson who wrote the sci-fi book The Space Between Worlds.

Makaya, hello!

Hello, thank you for having me.

I'm so stoked to talk about this movie.

Oh my gosh, there is so much to talk about. We also have with us the author of Her Body and Other Parties

and in the Dreamhouse, Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen, welcome to Nertet.

Hello, thank you for having me.

So Carmen, you also wrote about Promising Young Woman for the New Yorker.

So we are for sure going to discuss a lot of the things that you have all written about. Before we get

started, since this is a recap, I just want to be very clear here is your

spoiler warning. Either you're here because you already saw the movie and you

also can't stop thinking about it or you haven't seen it but you're here because you already saw the movie and you also can't stop thinking about it or you haven't

seen it but you're okay with spoilers in either case we are going to spoil this film.

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